One Man Dead-One In Custody-Wilkes-Barre Police Investigate Homicide

Wilkes-Barre, Luzerne County- Wilkes-Barre police are investigating the first homicide of the year- It happened at an apartment building in the Heights Section of the city late Monday night. 27 year old Charles Edmunds was found stabbed and bleeding in a staircase of an apartment buildng. He later died at the hospital. Police have arrested and charged 31 year Al Tariq Peterkin . According to police the two were arguing-and Peterkin allegedly stabbed edmunds in the stomach. An autopsy will be performed on Edmunds tomorrow.

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